For the stakes related to costs, efficiency, performance, agility, security and productivity, it is obvious that, platform as a service (PaaS) are henceforth indispensable for modern developers and organizations.
The market is now
mature and very dynamic with various players and streamlined features and
services that enrich the market.
Players including
Google, Amazon Web Services, CloudBees, Salesforce and Pivotal Software are at the core of
stakes with their different and multiple technologies and services.
Google
Google offers high level of durability and availability. Their services are
primarily designed for use in cases requiring frequent data access and low
latency such as serving interactive workloads, website content, data supporting
mobile, and gaming applications. Google also provides better availability when
compared to other storage classes with slightly higher storage cost.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services was established in 2006 and is headquartered at
Seattle, US. They provide IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form
of web services. Their products and solutions include application services,
deployment and management, storage and content delivery, cloud computing,
mobile services, applications, networking, databases, and analytics.
Pivotal Software
Their offerings include features such as multi-cloud, multi-vendor, and
open source. It is built for quick-cycle innovation of cloud applications. They
serve diverse industries such as automotive, education, healthcare, financial
services, insurance, Internet services, public sector, retail, technology,
telecom, and media.
Salesforce
Salesforce operates as a platform for Salesforce automation that enables
companies to store data, access customers, prospect information, track leads,
forecast opportunities, and collaborate around any sale on desktop and mobile
devices.
CloudBees
The company operates with an open source business model, as well as
develops, and deploys enterprise applications. The CloudBees Jenkins Platform
is a fully featured technology platform for implementing continuous integration
(CI) and continuous delivery (CD) products. CloudBees is funded by Matrix
Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Verizon Ventures.
In June 2015, Cloudbees announced that its CloudBees Jenkins Platform will
run on Amazon Web Services' EC2 cloud service. This integration offers
CloudBees customers the ability to scale their CD deployments by shifting
Jenkins’ compute-intensive jobs and resources to Amazon’s EC2 cloud. It also
enables Amazon Web Service customers using EC2 to use enterprise-level Jenkins
solutions in their software delivery processes.